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Areal Flood Warning 12, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

May 19, 20215 counties in Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this areal flood warning at May 19, 2021, 4:10 PM CDT for 5 counties in Texas. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 19, 2021, 4:10 PM CDT (21:10 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 2021, 4:41 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Aransas County, TX, Calhoun County, TX, Goliad County, TX, Refugio County, TX, Victoria County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 285 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 3667 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 504 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 6.3

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this areal flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Corpus Christi, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this areal flood warning went out at May 19, 12:53 PM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 19, 12:53 PM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 19, 2:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 19, 2:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 19, 2:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 19, 3:12 PM CDT, 58 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 19, 3:16 PM CDT, 54 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 19, 3:27 PM CDT, 43 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 19, 4:05 PM CDT, 5 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 18, 7:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Live Oak	41 min
May 18, 8:33 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CRP	La Salle, McMullen	117 min
May 18, 8:42 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CRP	Victoria	2 hr
May 18, 9:10 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Victoria	3 hr
May 18, 9:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Webb	52 min
May 18, 9:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Goliad	51 min
May 18, 10:35 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CRP	La Salle, Webb	3 hr
May 18, 10:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Victoria	2 hr
May 18, 11:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Webb	44 min
May 18, 11:49 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Calhoun, Victoria	3 hr
May 19, 12:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Calhoun	37 min
May 19, 12:12 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	CRP	Victoria	36 hr
May 19, 12:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	McMullen	33 min
May 19, 12:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Calhoun, Refugio, Victoria	43 min
May 19, 12:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Duval, McMullen	46 min
May 19, 12:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Bee, Duval, Jim Wells, Live Oak, McMullen, San Patricio	47 min
May 19, 1:35 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Calhoun, Victoria	115 min
May 19, 2:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Goliad	30 min
May 19, 2:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Refugio, Victoria	26 min
May 19, 2:51 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Refugio, Victoria	3 hr
May 19, 3:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Victoria	31 min
May 19, 3:48 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Calhoun, Victoria	3 hr
May 19, 4:07 AM CDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	CRP	Aransas, Calhoun, Kleberg, Nueces	18 hr
May 19, 4:18 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Goliad, Refugio, Victoria	3 hr
May 19, 5:42 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Refugio, Victoria	2 hr
May 19, 6:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Kleberg	50 min
May 19, 6:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Bee, Jim Wells, Live Oak, San Patricio	22 min
May 19, 6:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Webb	52 min
May 19, 7:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	San Patricio	45 min
May 19, 7:09 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Jim Wells, Nueces, San Patricio	6 hr
May 19, 7:17 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Kleberg, Nueces	6 hr
May 19, 7:30 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CRP	Webb	3 hr
May 19, 7:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Duval	33 min
May 19, 7:58 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	San Patricio	6 hr
May 19, 8:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Kleberg	44 min
May 19, 8:46 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Kleberg, Nueces	4 hr
May 19, 8:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Jim Wells	47 min
May 19, 9:15 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CRP	Duval, Jim Wells, Kleberg, Nueces, Webb	3 hr
May 19, 9:19 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	CRP		26 min
May 19, 9:21 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	CRP	Nueces, San Patricio	11 hr
May 19, 9:32 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	CRP	Jim Wells, Nueces, San Patricio	11 hr
May 19, 9:35 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	CRP		25 min
May 19, 9:38 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	CRP		52 min
May 19, 9:39 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	CRP	Aransas, Refugio	6 days
May 19, 9:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	CRP	Kleberg, Nueces	47 min
May 19, 9:55 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Aransas, San Patricio	3 hr
May 19, 10:25 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	CRP		50 min
May 19, 11:08 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	CRP		52 min
May 19, 11:46 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	CRP		44 min
May 19, 12:36 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CRP	Aransas, Calhoun, Goliad, Refugio, Victoria	20 min
May 19, 12:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Aransas, Calhoun, Goliad, Refugio, Victoria	3 hr
May 19, 1:57 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	CRP	Jim Wells, Kleberg, Nueces, San Patricio	3 hr
May 19, 2:04 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	CRP	Aransas, Bee, Jim Wells, Live Oak, Nueces, Refugio and 1 more	3 hr

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.